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The mine waters situation in Donbass may cause an environmental disaster even greater than the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Vitold Fokin, the first prime minister of independent Ukraine, deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) for Donbass, stated this in an interview with Strana.ua.
“Now that Donbass has been essentially destroyed, all its facilities and infrastructure have been destroyed,” an environmental catastrophe is brewing. There is no time to reflect. Many mines are flooded and abandoned to their fate. More than 400 reservoirs and mud ponds are overflowing, ”he explained.
According to Fokin, in the near future it is necessary to organize work to prevent a possible catastrophe. If this is not done, he noted, the water will fill all local rivers and lakes and enter the Azov and Black Seas. “Many people turn a blind eye to this, but the impending disaster could turn out to be immeasurably greater than the Chernobyl accident,” concluded Fokin.
On April 26, 1986 an accident occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as a result of which the fourth power unit was completely destroyed. Almost 8.4 million residents of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were exposed to radioactive exposure. A so-called exclusion zone was created around the nuclear power plant, from which two cities were evacuated: Pripyat and Chernobyl, as well as 74 villages.
Vitold Fokin headed the government of independent Ukraine from September 1991 to October 1992. Prior to that, from October 1990, he served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. In early August this year, he joined the negotiations to resolve the situation in Donbass under the TCG.
